Friday, 30 July 2010

Morning everyone! Bright and early again for an exciting blog hop post!

Today sees another fab new release from SCACD Stamps! This time it's a new Victoria Case for SCACD collection, and we're being revisited by a sweet character! There are SIX adorable new Aurora images, all being released today. They are being showcased in a fantastic blog hop, in which the Quixotic Paperie DT are once again joining the fabulous SCACD DT! We hope you will join us and enjoy all the inspiration! Plus of course, do a little shopping.

You should have hopped over here from ALEX LUNDGREN. If not, you may want to pop over to ELAINE'S BLOG to start from the beginning!

I got to use this fab image called 'Bee Mine'-isn't she adorable! She's available at Quixotic Paperie here (available in the US from SCACD here). I used my copics to colour her in, and added some extra stitching. The yummy papers I used are all Echo Park 'A Walk In The Park'-really fun and bright papers! I also had to get my Viva Decor out again-I used the holo iridescent glitter. All the flowers are punched with my retro punches and the swirls are ek success.

Sunday, 25 July 2010

Afternoon everyone! Hope you're all well and have had a lovely weekend so far-it's still quite hot here in the UK so we've been enjoying the sunshine:)

This week over at Quixotic Challenges Kim Costello (PaperBabe) picked the fab thme of 'miniatures' so you could make teeny note cards, alter a small box, maybe decorate a matchbox....lots of possibilities! I decided to make some tags:) I have just been loving the new Whimsy Stamps Release and I used the Whimsy Birthday Letter Seals-aren't they awesome! If you're in the UK/Europe you can get all your Whimsy from Quixotic Paperie or if you're in the USA order directly from Whimsy.

Friday, 23 July 2010

Good morning everyone!!! Fun post for you today-fab way to start a Friday! As you probably know there's been a recent new addition to Quixotic Paperie which is the Viva Decor product line. We have all fallen in love, and so, we're having a little blog hop to celebrate!

Joining the Quixotic Paperie Design Team on this hop we have the fantastic Susana's Custom Art & Card Design Design Team! Susana is a good friend of Elaine's and SCACD has become like an international sister store to Quixotic Paperie! We're collaborating on some crafty adventures, and this is hopefully the first of many!

We hope you will join us on this hop and be inspired in ways to use the Viva Decor product range! You will also have the chance to win some fabulous candy - both Elaine and Susana will be giving away a pack of the most popular Viva Decor Pens (Ice White Pearl Pen, Holographic Glitter Liner and the Clear Gloss Gel Pen).

All you will have to do to win is answer a question at each store blog - 1 entry at each STORE blog per person please! Both blog candy draws will close on 31st July 2010.

Ok onto the fun! There's going to be an awesome candy prize at the end of the hop so make sure you comment on everyones post to be in with a chance of winning! Ooo and the hop ends Monday July 26th Noon EST so you have lots of time to complete it!

Well that's it from me, not going to waffle too much today-don't forget to leave a comment before you hop to the next stop! And your next stop is Crissy's Blog. Her work is always jaw droppingly amazing so I can't wait to go and see myself! Have fun and thanks for stopping by today!

Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Afternoon all! Hope everyone's having a great week! This week over at Quixotic Challenges the challenge is set by Kim and she wants us to add pearls to our project. Nice easy one:) Speaking of pearls, have you seen the new Viva Decor pens in stock at Quixotic Paperie? Utterly fab!

I actually have joined in some challenges this time! I used the fab sketch over at Mojo Monday-it's been just forever since I played there! I'm also entering this at: Craftalicious (cute), Creative Card Crew (die cuts).

This card will be popping along to My Etsy Shop shortly-I've got 10% off all my cards over there right now as part of Etsy's Christmas in July sale. I've also added more new designs including some gorgeous wooden hanging ornaments which I've altered-this is the heart and home one:

For those of you that haven't really been to Etsy or Folksy before before you start your Christmas Shopping for this year do go over and have a look-there's such amazing pieces of work-I always found the prices excellent, and it's lovely to support someone's small business rather than giving more cash to big corporate companies;)

Hope you find some time to join in with us at Quixotic Challenges this week! Thanks so much for stopping by and any comments you leave:)

Thursday, 1 July 2010

Evening all! Today brings a fabulous new Digital Release from Whimsy! They are so fab! There are 2 fun activities going on to showcase the images that you can get involved in. There's the Blog Hop Release, if you want to join in and have a chance at winning some candy too pop along to the beginning here. My team is part of the Whimsy Challenge where we've all followed a fab sketch and each chosen one of the new images to work with. You can join in too using the sketch and have a go at winning 5 images of your choice-what a fab prize!

I decided to use Crissy's adorable new 'Trimming the Tree image-how cute! It was a total join to colour in, as are all of Crissy's images! The fab thing is, as it's digi, you can start colouring right away! I've actually used some of my Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses paper which I got last year and never ended up using, I do like this colour scheme though! I also added some punched snowflakes which have been painted with Shimmerz in Pixie Dust and some organza ribbon. The sentiment is from one of Ann's new digital sentiment collections which you can find here-that girls is such a star-I love all her wordart!

Ooo before I forget I wanted to tell you about some fab watermarks and signatures that are now available at Whimsy here, I've had lots of emails in the past asking about help on this so I think this is such a fab idea!

Copyright

All designs are copyright of Rowena Barnard (Craftypagan Designs). I'm more than happy for you to take inspiration from my work but direct copying is not permitted. If you wish to use one of my images on your blog please be sure to credit me with a link. Thanks!